Alaska Gov. Dunleavy unveils new-look dividend plan with guaranteed payments

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4. The More Obscure The Government Budget

the more power the politicians have.

I'm pretty convinced most states develop Byzantine spending and taxing structures just so you can't figure out what they are up to. Any real business tracks where its dollars come in and go out to the penny. I don't think you can say the same for government spending. Maybe it's buried in some report or more likely some old computer system that only spits out certain numbers. You have to comb through a mountain of data to make any sense of it.